Miss Wolcott's Ghost Characters

Chief Inspector Gamache is awakened at 3:17 a.m. by a frightened caller who says there is a body in Lost Nation. He leads the homicide investigation, questions friends and suspects, follows the historical trail through the Empress of Ireland and Daisy Wolcott, and insists on the importance of the why behind a death.

Arc: He moves from the anonymous call through Lost Nation, the Empress of Ireland, and Daisy Wolcott's plant to arresting Aimée Lagacé, surviving a hostage standoff, and reflecting on memory, justice, and second chances.

• Reine-Marie Gamache — his wife
• Jean-Guy Beauvoir — his son-in-law, protégé, and second-in-command
• Isabelle Lacoste — Sûreté colleague and subordinate
• Clara Morrow — friend and neighbor
• Ruth Zardo — village neighbor and poet
• Aimée Lagacé — botanist collaborator whom he later arrests
• Gaston Comeau — former protégé and unreliable figure in the case

Aimée Lagacé is the botanist who identifies Miss Wolcott's Ghost and becomes central to the murder case. She was hired by Brian Fillmore to research Daisy Wolcott, secretly hired Jeanette Bouchard, and later hides the ledger in Gamache's garden.

Arc: She starts as a botanist collaborator and ends as the convicted murderer of Brian Fillmore; the jury acquits her only of conspiring to murder Jeanette Bouchard.

• Brian Fillmore — hired her for botanical research and was killed by her
• Jeanette Bouchard — secretly hired her and planned to scapegoat her
• Armand Gamache — arrests her
• Professor Lamontagne — friend who respected her work
• Daisy Wolcott — researched her documents and used her plant

Jean-Guy is Gamache's son-in-law, protégé, and second-in-command. He organizes the Incident Room, searches scenes, questions suspects, and is haunted by the Empress of Ireland and by seeing Gaston Comeau again.

Arc: He struggles with nightmares and rage at Comeau, works the investigation, saves Gamache in the hostage standoff, and in the final dream turns toward Annie and the children.

• Armand Gamache — his father-in-law, mentor, and boss
• Reine-Marie Gamache — his mother-in-law
• Annie Gamache — his wife
• Honoré — his son
• Idola — his daughter
• Isabelle Lacoste — Sûreté colleague
• Gaston Comeau — former colleague he confronts with hostility

Isabelle is a Sûreté investigator working closely with Gamache and Beauvoir. She examines the cemetery graves and rosemary evidence, helps manage the exhumation, and challenges Gamache over his treatment of Comeau.

Arc: She moves from forensic scene work to confronting Gamache about Comeau and protecting Jean-Guy, while helping close the case.

• Armand Gamache — her boss and patron
• Jean-Guy Beauvoir — Sûreté colleague whom she protects
• Ruth Zardo — the poet whose whispered words comforted her when she was shot
• Dr. Sharon Harris — coroner she consults
• Aimée Lagacé — suspect she helps question

Clara is an artist, Peter Morrow's widow, and Gamache's friend and neighbor. Her phone and name are used by the anonymous caller, and she later sketches the suspicious visitors and helps uncover Peter's family history.

Arc: She begins as the unsettled victim of a borrowed name and lonely widow, then helps the investigation with sketches and family history while still grieving Peter.

• Peter Morrow — her late husband
• Myrna — her best friend
• Ruth Zardo — friend
• Reine-Marie Gamache — friend and neighbor
• Armand Gamache — friend and neighbor
• Brian Fillmore — man who visited her claiming to be a distant cousin
• Jeanette Bouchard — visitor who claimed to be writing about Peter

Reine-Marie is Armand's wife, a researcher, and a steady presence for the family and village. She contacts archives, helps find the Lost Nation recordings, recovers a damaged cassette, and later guards Miss Wolcott's Ghost with Armand.

Arc: She moves from supportive spouse and archive researcher to active evidence-gatherer who recovers the cassette and helps guard the plant.

• Armand Gamache — her husband
• Jean-Guy Beauvoir — her son-in-law
• Clara Morrow — friend
• Myrna — friend and fellow gardener
• Ruth Zardo — friend
• Monsieur Péladeau — source who gives her Solange's cassette

Ruth is an irascible poet who hides behind the role of an old drunk, with her duck Rosa close by. She recognizes Lost Nation, identifies rosemary as remembrance, and remains a sharp, teasing presence among the villagers.

Arc: She begins by refusing entry and hiding behind her persona, then cooperates on Lost Nation and remains a sharp, comforting presence.

• Rosa — her duck
• Armand Gamache — village neighbor
• Jean-Guy Beauvoir — neighbor and acquaintance
• Clara Morrow — friend
• Myrna — friend
• Reine-Marie Gamache — friend
• Honoré — her best friend

Myrna is Clara's best friend, a gardener, and part of the village group around the bistro and bookstore. She calls Billy about Lost Nation, supports Clara, and helps interpret the plant and historical clues.

Arc: She remains a supportive friend and gardener, helping identify Lost Nation and the plant.

• Clara Morrow — her best friend
• Billy — her partner
• Ruth Zardo — friend
• Reine-Marie Gamache — friend and fellow gardener
• Gabri — friend
• Olivier — friend

Brian Fillmore is Réunion's founder and Charles's brother, obsessed with the Empress of Ireland and convinced he was Aldous Clybourne reborn. He visited Clara under a false family connection, bought one of Peter Morrow's paintings, and was found murdered in Lost Nation.

Arc: He begins as a missing Réunion founder and becomes the identified murdered man whose obsession with the Empress and Daisy Wolcott drives the case.

• Charles Fillmore — his brother
• Clara Morrow — visited her under a false family-connection pretext
• Peter Morrow — bought one of his paintings
• Aldous Clybourne — believed he was Aldous reincarnated
• Aimée Lagacé — hired her to research Daisy Wolcott
• Daisy Wolcott — sought her research

Jeanette is a Réunion investigator who visited Clara under a false cover as an artist writing about Peter Morrow. She was secretly hired by Aimée Lagacé to research Brian Fillmore and Daisy Wolcott, later learned of the murder, and died at Wolcott House.

Arc: She moves from suspicious visitor to victim and compromised accomplice; her watercolor book becomes a final trace of her.

• Janice Bouchard — her mother
• Gaston Comeau — her best friend and co-worker
• Aimée Lagacé — hired her and planned to scapegoat her
• Clara Morrow — visited her under false pretenses
• Brian Fillmore — researched him for Lagacé

Charles is Brian's brother and the manager of Réunion. He is guarded, wealthy, and initially lies about Brian's visit to Clara, but he gives a DNA sample and later learns of Brian's death.

Arc: He moves from evasive suspect to grieving brother after Gamache tells him Brian is dead and Lagacé has been arrested.

• Brian Fillmore — his brother
• Armand Gamache — questioned by him and told of Brian's death
• Jeanette Bouchard — denies knowing her before Gamache mentions her
• Réunion — manages the company during Brian's absence

Gaston is a former Sûreté agent and protégé of Gamache, now working as a Réunion janitor. He calls Gamache about the body, lies repeatedly, is suspected at points, and is close to Jeanette Bouchard and her mother Janice.

Arc: He moves from shame, fear, and lying to caring for Janice Bouchard to the end; Gamache later shakes his hand after he stays with her.

• Armand Gamache — former mentor and patron
• Jean-Guy Beauvoir — former colleague who confronts him with rage
• Isabelle Lacoste — former colleague who calls him a coward
• Jeanette Bouchard — his best friend and co-worker
• Janice Bouchard — friend he cares for at the end
• Gabri — reluctant B&B host

Daisy Wolcott is a Victorian botanist and collector who inherited her father's estate, traveled with her cat Peduncle, and discovered the plant called Miss Wolcott's Ghost. Dismissed as a kook in life, she donated papers and a man's tweed suit to Macdonald College.

Arc: Dismissed and mocked in life, she is posthumously vindicated when her plant and research prove valuable.

• Peduncle — her cat and travel companion
• William Wolcott — her father
• Mr. Longines — her father's solicitor
• Professor Lafreniére — friend who received her life's work
• Professor Abe Russell — academic who took her papers
• Brian Fillmore — sought her research
• Aimée Lagacé — researched and used her work
• Daisy (the housemaid) — left her anonymous botanical drawings

Dr. Harris is the coroner who examines the Lost Nation body and establishes that the man was murdered by blows to the head. She also explains the seeds in the body, the preservation by freezing, and later confirms the victim is male.

Arc: She first dates the death by the first snow, then concedes a March death is possible after Jean-Guy raises the thaw.

• Armand Gamache — coroner working with his team
• Jean-Guy Beauvoir — consults her about the date of death
• Isabelle Lacoste — discusses the exhumation order with her

Ferdinand is a young Sûreté agent eager to impress the senior officers. He recognizes the Fillmore name from Réunion, researches May 29, 1914, and reports details about the accident tape and the shut-down original investigation.

Arc: He moves from eager rookie to useful investigator whose research helps redirect the case.

• Jean-Guy Beauvoir — senior officer he reports to
• Armand Gamache — subordinate who provides information
• Ruth Zardo — old woman who questions him

Judge Morin hears Gamache's appeal for warrants and an exhumation order. He grants the search warrant and exhumation but refuses to allow the small grave to be dug and requires his own presence.

Arc: He grants the searches and exhumation while protecting the small grave, then joins the team at the empty grave.

• Armand Gamache — judge who grants his requests
• Jean-Guy Beauvoir — joins the exhumation with him
• Isabelle Lacoste — joins the exhumation with her

Maitre Lebel is the Crown Prosecutor who questions Gamache about the arrest of Aimée Lagacé. He is condescending at first and insists Gamache is not a botanist, but becomes engaged as the motive is explained.

Arc: He begins condescending and underprepared but becomes engaged as Gamache lays out the motive, then demands more evidence for first-degree murder.

• Armand Gamache — Crown Prosecutor questioning him, with mutual dislike
• Aimée Lagacé — prosecutor reviewing the case against her

Samantha Eidinger is the head of forensic accounting investigating Réunion. She explains Brian Fillmore's genealogical project, the company's wealth, and the conspiracy theory that the founder does not exist.

Arc: She moves from routine forensic accounting to exposing Réunion's false founder and Brian's enormous donations.

• Armand Gamache — reports her findings to him
• Jean-Guy Beauvoir — colleague in the forensic accounting meeting
• Brian Fillmore — investigates his finances and identity

Stephen is Armand's godfather, a lover of finance, business, and gossip. He explains Réunion's success and the Fillmore brothers' roles, and later confirms that Brian Fillmore's McGill donation was earmarked for Macdonald Campus.

Arc: He provides financial and historical context and confirms the McGill donation; his role remains advisory.

• Armand Gamache — his godson
• Reine-Marie Gamache — asks after her
• Ruth Zardo — struck up a friendship with her and bonded with her duck
• Jean-Guy Beauvoir — friend and self-proclaimed godparent to his children

Peter is Clara's late husband, an artist whose studio remains full of his unfinished work and lingering scent. His Morrow family history becomes important through Thomas Morrow and the search for a ledger.

Arc: Though dead, he becomes more understood through Clara's memories and the revelation of his family's corrupt history.

• Clara Morrow — his wife
• Thomas Morrow — his great-grandfather
• Brian Fillmore — bought one of his paintings

Janice is Jeanette's mother, frail and grieving. She questions why Jeanette did not go to the police after learning of the murder, and Gamache arranges to cover her private nurse's payment.

Arc: She moves from grieving mother to collapse after the verdict and dies the next day, with her ashes buried beside Jeanette's.

• Jeanette Bouchard — her daughter
• Gaston Comeau — genuine affection and care
• Armand Gamache — questions and comforts her

Thomas Morrow was the Receiver of Wrecks and Peter Morrow's great-grandfather. He took bribes, stole from wrecks, had the Empress mail brought up before the bodies, and kept a second ledger documenting illegal sales and blackmail.

Arc: His corruption is revealed through the second ledger and Flossy's tape, tying the historical murder to the present body.

• Aldous Clybourne — his nephew
• Peter Morrow — his great-grandson
• Flossy Fuller — her employer
• Jack Montgomery — threatened him

Aldous was the mail room steward on the Empress of Ireland and survived the sinking. He was Thomas Morrow's nephew and died with Morrow in a cabin fire after they buried documents at Lost Nation.

Arc: His death with Morrow and Brian's belief that he was Aldous reincarnated deepen the historical mystery.

• Thomas Morrow — his uncle
• James Clybourne — his grandson
• Brian Fillmore — believed he was Aldous reincarnated
• Flossy Fuller — she had a crush on him

Flossy was Thomas Morrow's cleaning woman and the subject of Solange Péladeau's oral-history interview. Her recorded account describes Morrow's illegal sales, the Empress documents, their burial at Lost Nation, and Jack Montgomery's threats.

Arc: Her oral-history tape moves from a fragment ending in a murder to a detailed account of Morrow, the documents, and Jack Montgomery.

• Solange Péladeau — her interviewer
• Thomas Morrow — her employer
• Jack Montgomery — beat and threatened her
• Aldous Clybourne — she had a crush on him
• Monsieur Péladeau — he believes she and Solange were not murdered

Solange was an oral historian who interviewed Flossy Fuller about Lost Nation as part of Canadian Centennial celebrations. She died with Flossy in a car accident, and her damaged cassette becomes key evidence.

Arc: Her interview with Flossy becomes the key recovered evidence after her damaged cassette is preserved and repaired.

• Monsieur Péladeau — her father
• Flossy Fuller — her interviewee

Gabri is Olivier's partner and co-proprietor of the B&B and bistro. He serves the officers, jokes with the villagers, and reluctantly houses Gaston Comeau under a false name.

Arc: He remains a comic host but helps hide Comeau and watches the garden confrontation; he does not fundamentally change.

• Olivier — his partner
• Jean-Guy Beauvoir — friend who asks him to house Comeau
• Gaston Comeau — reluctant B&B guest
• Ruth Zardo — friend he banters with
• Reine-Marie Gamache — friend
• Clara Morrow — friend

Olivier is Gabri's partner and co-proprietor of the B&B and bistro. He serves drinks and food, teases Ruth, and gives Beauvoir and Lacoste the key when they return late.

Arc: He remains a bistro and B&B co-proprietor; he does not fundamentally change.

• Gabri — his partner
• Ruth Zardo — bistro regular he teases
• Reine-Marie Gamache — friend
• Clara Morrow — friend

Paul is a gallery owner who provides Gamache and Beauvoir with a paper receipt from Brian Fillmore. He describes Brian as polite, calm, and wearing vintage pre-Great War tweed, and says Brian claimed a distant-cousin connection to Clara and Peter Morrow.

Arc: He remains a cooperative witness whose paper records help trace Brian Fillmore.

• Brian Fillmore — gallery client
• Clara Morrow — gallery has works by her
• Peter Morrow — gallery used to represent him
• Armand Gamache — interviewed by him
• Jean-Guy Beauvoir — interviewed by him

Monsieur Péladeau is Solange's elderly father and a former local Sûreté commander. He admits taking Solange's perfume bottle, a shoe, and a crushed cassette from the crash site, and gives the cassette to Reine-Marie.

Arc: He entrusts the cassette to Reine-Marie because it preserves his daughter's voice.

• Solange Péladeau — his daughter
• Reine-Marie Gamache — gives her the cassette
• Flossy Fuller — believes she and Solange were not murdered

Patrice is the local historical-society archivist who helps Reine-Marie and Gamache with the Lost Nation records. He finds the empty file requested under Clara Morrow's name and produces the old cassette labeled Lost Nation.

Arc: He remains an archivist who provides records and the crucial first oral-history tape.

• Reine-Marie Gamache — helps her with the archives
• Armand Gamache — provides the Lost Nation cassette
• Clara Morrow — the Lost Nation file was requested under her name

Billy is Myrna's partner, away on a job in the Abitibi when Myrna calls. He tells her his grandparents used Lost Nation as a threat and that people who searched for it got scared.

Arc: He remains a minor source who confirms Lost Nation's fearful local reputation.

• Myrna — her partner

Professor Agrawal is a Cambridge botanist whom Gamache consults about the plant names carved in Daisy Wolcott's folly. He confirms the Royal Society's black cross by Professor Russell's name and later says Miss Wolcott's findings would have been worth millions or billions.

Arc: He moves from remote botanical consultant to a visiting expert who confirms the plant's value.

• Armand Gamache — botanical expert he consults
• Professor Lamontagne — colleague

Professor Lamontagne is a Macdonald Campus botanist who helps reveal the value of Daisy Wolcott's research. She says Miss Wolcott's Ghost is Eryngium mnemosyne, named for memory, and proposes joint Cambridge-Laval research.

Arc: She moves from academic contact to the expert who explains the medicinal and historical importance of Wolcott's work.

• Professor Mustafa Agrawal — colleague
• Aimée Lagacé — friend whose work she respected
• Armand Gamache — briefs him on the findings

Professor Russell was a Macdonald College professor who took Daisy Wolcott's papers in 1914 to take to an England conference. He died when his ship sank, and the librarian suspects he meant to claim her research.

Arc: His academic theft is revealed through the missing papers and the black cross beside his name.

• Daisy Wolcott — took her papers
• Macdonald College — professor there

Professor Lafreniére was Daisy Wolcott's friend and the person in whose care she left her life's work. He died shortly after the donation, and his letter later reaches Brian Fillmore through his granddaughter.

Arc: He remains a background figure whose custody of Daisy's work helps explain how the papers disappeared.

• Daisy Wolcott — friend and custodian of her life's work

James Clybourne was a landscape architect and director of the Royal Canadian Horticultural Society who died in 1999. His photograph is used on the Réunion website as the supposed image of founder Brian Fillmore.

Arc: His stolen image is exposed as part of Réunion's deceptive founder story.

• Aldous Clybourne — his grandson
• Brian Fillmore — used his photo as Réunion's founder

William Wolcott was Daisy's father. His will leaves Daisy his entire estate, including the property, London home, and investments totaling four hundred and thirty-five thousand pounds sterling.

Arc: His inheritance enables Daisy's botanical work and travels.

• Daisy Wolcott — his daughter and main heir
• Mr. Longines — his solicitor

Mr. Longines is William Wolcott's solicitor, who reads the will to Daisy. He disapproves of women and wishes he could lie about the inheritance but does not.

Arc: He remains a minor legal figure whose discomfort underscores the era's attitudes toward women.

• Daisy Wolcott — reads her father's will to her
• William Wolcott — solicitor for his estate

Peter Takacs works at Buzz in Knowlton and guides Gamache into Lost Nation after confirming it is a ghost town. He saves Gamache from a crumbling cliff edge and runs back to bring Lacoste.

Arc: He moves from startled bistro worker to guide whose local knowledge leads the investigators to the body.

• Normand — his partner at Buzz
• Armand Gamache — guides him into Lost Nation
• Isabelle Lacoste — brings her back to Gamache

Normand is Peter Takacs's partner at Buzz. Takacs calls him to open the bistro while Takacs guides Gamache.

Arc: He remains a minor helper at Buzz.

• Peter Takacs — his partner at Buzz

Daniel Bouvier is a longtime friend of Clara and Peter Morrow who visited Clara in November. He is investigated as a possible victim or caller but is ruled out because he was in Florida through Christmas.

Arc: He is cleared as a possible victim or suspect.

• Clara Morrow — longtime friend
• Peter Morrow — longtime friend

Léo Ouelette is Sheila's husband and a visitor on Clara's list. He left Clara's visit because he was unwell and later died of stage four pancreatic cancer.

Arc: He is ruled out as the body or killer when his death from cancer is confirmed.

• Sheila — his wife
• Clara Morrow — acquaintance through Sheila

Sheila is Léo Ouelette's wife and appears on Clara's visitor list. She came with Léo, who left because he was unwell.

Arc: She remains a minor figure in the visitor-list investigation.

• Léo Ouelette — her husband
• Clara Morrow — acquaintance through Sheila

Annie is Jean-Guy Beauvoir's wife and the mother of Honoré and Idola. She appears in Jean-Guy's thoughts and nightmares and is part of the family he fears failing.

Arc: She remains a grounding figure for Jean-Guy, especially in his final dream.

• Jean-Guy Beauvoir — her husband
• Honoré — her son
• Idola — her daughter
• Armand Gamache — her father
• Reine-Marie Gamache — her mother

Honoré is Jean-Guy and Annie's young son and Ruth Zardo's best friend. Jean-Guy takes a photo for him and thinks of him during the investigation.

Arc: He remains a family anchor for Jean-Guy.

• Jean-Guy Beauvoir — his father
• Annie Gamache — his mother
• Idola — his sister
• Ruth Zardo — her best friend

Idola is Jean-Guy and Annie's young daughter. She is part of the family Jean-Guy fears losing in his nightmares.

Arc: She remains a family anchor for Jean-Guy.

• Jean-Guy Beauvoir — her father
• Annie Gamache — her mother
• Honoré — her brother

Captain Kendall commands the Empress of Ireland in the historical account. When the Storstad bears down in fog, he orders full speed ahead, is thrown from the bridge, and is rescued after ordering lifeboats back again and again.

Arc: He moves from command to survivor, trying to save passengers until he collapses.

• Captain Anderson — captain of the Storstad, the ship that collides with the Empress

Captain Anderson commands the Storstad in the historical account. He is awakened by the collision, runs to the bridge, and later hears screams across the water with his wife.

Arc: He remains a historical witness to the sinking and its aftermath.

• Mrs. Anderson — his wife
• Captain Kendall — captain of the Empress

Mrs. Anderson follows her husband on deck after the collision and is the first to understand that the distant shrieks are people screaming for help.

Arc: She remains a minor historical witness to the disaster.

• Captain Anderson — her husband

Emily is a seventeen-year-old server at a fast-food restaurant who appears in the gang's taunting video. She asks the burger line and is then shot.

Arc: She is a victim whose killing in the video exposes Comeau's earlier failure and triggers the raid.

Rebecca is the twenty-two-year-old manager of the burger restaurant where Gamache sets the undercover trap. She sits with Gamache in her office, identifies regular customers, and hopes to study veterinary medicine.

Arc: She remains a frightened but helpful civilian during the trap.

• Armand Gamache — burger-joint manager assisting him during the trap

Katrina is the chief Sûreté technician at the Three Pines cemetery gravestone. She tells Isabelle the engraving may be a drawing or symbol rather than a name.

Arc: She remains a minor forensic technician.

• Isabelle Lacoste — Sûreté technician who has worked many cases with her

Inspector Fortin reports on the interviews of Clara's visitor list and the inability to find Brian Fillmore and Jeanette Bouchard. He agrees to prioritize finding them after Gamache says the death may have occurred in March.

Arc: He remains a reporting senior officer who adjusts priorities as the timeline changes.

• Armand Gamache — reports to him as patron

Perreault is a subordinate agent sent by Gamache to go out with Peter Takacs and return with the coroner.

Arc: He remains a minor subordinate agent.

• Armand Gamache — subordinate agent

Grenier is a Sûreté colleague who calls Gamache to report that the analyzed email was not AI-generated.

Arc: He remains a minor Sûreté colleague reporting forensic results.

• Armand Gamache — Sûreté colleague

Dean Napier is the Macdonald Campus dean who speaks with Beauvoir and Lacoste. She confirms Brian Fillmore's sizable donation but refuses to disclose their confidential donor relationship and confirms Daisy Wolcott donated papers.

Arc: She remains a guarded institutional witness.

• Brian Fillmore — donor whose request she will not disclose
• Daisy Wolcott — confirms her papers donation
• Jean-Guy Beauvoir — interviewed by him
• Isabelle Lacoste — interviewed by her

Jack Montgomery is a mob-connected figure in Flossy Fuller's oral history. He threatened Thomas Morrow and later beat Flossy and broke her jaw to keep her quiet.

Arc: His threats and violence are revealed through Flossy's tape as part of the buried history.

• Thomas Morrow — threatened him
• Flossy Fuller — beat and threatened her

Daisy is the elderly housemaid whose name Daisy Wolcott hates. Anonymous plant watercolor pages appear on Daisy Wolcott's bed for years and stop when the housemaid Daisy dies, though Daisy Wolcott never realizes their source.

Arc: She remains a quiet influence whose drawings help spark Daisy Wolcott's botanical fascination.

• Daisy Wolcott — may have left her anonymous botanical drawings

Rosa is Ruth Zardo's duck. Ruth shoves Rosa into Armand's arms when she is escorted to the bistro, and Gabri jokes about using Rosa as security.

Arc: She remains a comic and affectionate presence attached to Ruth.

• Ruth Zardo — her duck
• Armand Gamache — Ruth shoves Rosa into his arms
• Gabri — jokes about her as security

Peduncle is Daisy Wolcott's cat and travel companion, buried beside her with a stone marked Beloved Companion. A kitten named Peduncle is also connected to Jeanette Bouchard and taken in by Janice.

Arc: Peduncle remains a symbol of Daisy's companionship and of the tender traces left behind.

• Daisy Wolcott — her cat and travel companion
• Janice Bouchard — takes in a kitten named Peduncle